Drinking
Cocktails At Six
The nights have drawn in and once more we are approaching that strange time of year when apparently everyone is going to parties, or in my case not. So, if any of you are going [more…]
Hobbies
Hobbies
Overland to Russia, Part Five
Just off Red Square in Moscow, by a Metro entrance, is a curious little basement exhibit, the Museum of the USSR. The day I visited it, I was almost alone as I viewed the dozen [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Ten
Monday Good morning, my friends. It’s a bit damp and grey this morning, so I was up and down the garden very quickly before my breakfast, as I expected it to rain at any moment. [more…]
Travel
Christmas Postcard From Manchester
Thank you for all your contributions below the line on last week’s article about my dreadful spelling. Turns out I don’t have some bizarre neurological condition after all; rather, I’m just like the rest of [more…]
Authoritarianism
Overland to Russia, Part Four
How popular is Putin really? Before trying to answer this, a bit of background is needed. The political landscape of Russia is not really comparable with, say, Britain or France, where the mechanism of democracy [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Nine
Monday Good morning my friends, it is yet another wet and dreary morning here in Downing Street and it was truly nasty when I went down to the bottom of the garden behind the gardener’s [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery: Wrecked in The Desert
Amongst my collection of original photographs taken during the Desert War by members of the Deutsche Afrika Korps, I have several of wrecked aircraft but most are usually burnt out and, except to an aviation [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Eight
Monday Good morning my friends, and welcome to another week of my musings. Bright and sunny this morning, but it is colder than yesterday. So Legohead thinks that being critical of Robber Reeves is sexist. [more…]
Engineering
Christmas Transport Catastrophe!
A catastrophic disaster unparalleled in the history of transport unravelled itself towards the tail end of 2025. This threatens to ruin every little boy’s Christmas. Or does it? In fits and starts from the end [more…]